The glorifying days of WWE Raw have long been vanquished. The once highest-rated program on television finds it hard these days to find a foothold on USA Network as it greatly lacks star power. It seems that last night’s episode of the show was met with another unfortunate record associated with the record low number of attendance.
According to a report by WrestleTix, the June 13 edition of WWE Raw hosted in Wichita, Kansas was on its way to having the lowest attendance for the program, since it resumed live touring in July 2021.
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The ticketed attendance mentioned by the source was 3,167 which was over-1,000 tickets short of the last time WWE was in the INTRUST Bank Arena. That was during the October 22nd edition of WWE SmackDown that drew approximately 4,580 tickets to the venue.
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Reason WWE Raw could have recorded the lowest attendance
The report also noted that the next lowest attendance since the return to touring in 2021 was 3,995 in San Francisco, California for the WWE Raw episode hosted on October 11, 2021. (although, the date wasn’t confirmed by the source) It should be noted that WWE recently moved their Money In The Bank event from Allegiant Stadium to the MGM Grand Garden Arena due to slow ticket sales. Not it can be promoted as a sell-out since all the tickets for the smaller venue were moved in a quicker fashion.
This poor state of WWE Raw can be attributed to the show not having a top champion since the Wrestlemania season. Following the unification of the WWE and WWE Universal Championships, as well as the WWE SmackDown and WWE RAW Tag Team Championships, the red brand has been left with only the United States and Raw Women’s Titles.
A major big blow occurred to the red brand after Cody Rhodes had to be shelved due to a torn pec injury. Talents like Becky Lynch, Bianca Belair, Seth Rollins, and AJ Styles are the current top talents but without a doubt, Rhodes was considered to be a fresh top babyface to the WWE Raw programming since his return at Wrestlemania 38.
WWE Raw has certainly been building stars like Veer Mahan, Riddle, Theory, or Dominik but they are yet to achieve the caliber of Roman Reigns, his cousins The Usos, or Drew McIntyre from WWE Smackdown.
